{"id":505683,"date":"2025-12-26T23:02:25","date_gmt":"2025-12-26T20:02:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=505683"},"modified":"2025-12-27T08:59:53","modified_gmt":"2025-12-27T05:59:53","slug":"ruginiene-lithuania-ready-to-consider-a-u-s-request-on-potash-transit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/ruginiene-lithuania-ready-to-consider-a-u-s-request-on-potash-transit","title":{"rendered":"Ruginien\u0117: Lithuania Ready To Consider A U.S. Request on Potash Transit"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>The United States has not asked Lithuania to consider the possibility of resuming potash transit, but if such a request is made, it will be examined, Lithuanian Prime Minister <b>Inga Ruginien\u0117<\/b> said.<\/p>\n<p><i>\u201cThere has never been any request for us to consider [resuming] transit through Lithuania, but if such a request comes \u2014 we will consider it. When that step comes, then we will be able to assess and speak. Right now this is not even being discussed,\u201d<\/i> ELTA news agency quoted Ruginien\u0117 as saying.<\/p>\n<p>Ruginien\u0117 stressed that relations between Vilnius and Washington remain good, and that U.S. diplomatic support in addressing Belarus\u2019s hybrid attacks is very important.<\/p>\n<p>The Lithuanian prime minister also noted the effectiveness of measures adopted by Lithuanian authorities to combat smuggling. She said the fight against smuggling would become even more active.<\/p>\n<p>The United States has suspended sanctions on the Belarusian potash sector. The Office of Foreign Assets Control has issued a licence allowing transactions with Belaruskalij, BKK and their subsidiaries. The European Union, however, has not lifted its sanctions on Belarusian potash, and its transit through the EU remains prohibited.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United States has not asked Lithuania to consider the possibility of resuming potash transit, but if such a request is made, it will be examined, Lithuanian Prime Minister Inga Ruginien\u0117 said. \u201cThere has never been any request for us to consider [resuming] transit through Lithuania, but if such a request comes \u2014 we will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":505682,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/694f75df4773b.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Ruginien\u0117: Lithuania Ready To Consider A U.S. Request on Potash Transit"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142339,142338],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-505683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-main","category-news"],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=505683"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505683\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/505682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=505683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=505683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=505683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}